A review by NASA found serious staffing issues that led to the Psyche Mission failing to launch.
Several issues at the lab led to the repeated slip of the launch of the Psyche Mission which is set to investigate a rare metal asteroid that could be worth a reported
The JPL didn't have enough experienced staff to cover Psyche according to the report. The management didn't give it enough attention. Communication failures between levels of management seemed to make it worse.
Problems with the project were created by the post-pandemic work environment.
According to the report, Psyche team members raised alarms, but they didn't think anyone at any level of management was taking them seriously. According to the report, the project's managers didn't recognize the problems until it was too late to fix them in time for the launch.
The report said that a culture of "prove there is a problem" led to important issues being ignored.
The VERITAS Venus Mission will have to be delayed from 28 to 2031 due to issues caused by JPL's failure to launch Psyche.
Failure to act will lead to more 'Psyches' and potentially in-flight failures, according to the report.
In the age of repeated mission slips, such accusations are likely to be taken seriously.
The meteorite hit Mars so hard that NASA thought it was a big earthquake.
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